Editing Muscogee (section)

===Clans===
While families include people who are directly related to each other, clans are composed of all people who are descendants of the same ancestral clan grouping. Like many Native American nations, the Muscogee Creek are [[matrilineal]]; each person belongs to the clan of their mother, who belongs to the clan of her mother. Inheritance and property are passed through the maternal line. Hereditary chiefs were born into certain clans.

Biological fathers are important within the family system but must come from another clan than the mother. But, within the clan, it is the mother's brother (the mother's nearest blood relation) who functions as the primary teacher, protector, disciplinarian and role model for children, especially for boys. Clan members do not claim "blood relation" but consider each other as family due to their membership in the same clan. This is expressed by their using the same kinship titles for both family and clan relations. For example, clan members of approximately the same age consider each other "brother" and "sister", even if they have never met before.

Because of this system, the Muscogee Creek children born of European fathers belonged to their mother's clans and were part of their tribal communities. High-ranking daughters of chiefs often found it advantageous to marry European traders, who could provide their families with goods. Muscogee Creek believed young men who became educated in European ways could help them manage under the new conditions related to colonialism, while preserving important Muscogee Creek cultural institutions.<ref name=perdue/>

Muscogee clans are as follows:<ref name=AAANativeArts>{{Cite web
 |url          = http://www.aaanativearts.com/creek_tribes.htm
 |title        = Creek Confederacy
 |access-date  = August 11, 2010
 |year         = 1999–2005
 |publisher    = AAANativeArts.com
 |archive-date = February 1, 2010
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100201145639/http://www.aaanativearts.com/creek_tribes.htm
 |url-status   = dead
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*Bear Clan (Muklasalgi, Nokosalgi),
*Beaver Clan (Itamalgi, Isfanalgi, Itchhasuaigi), 
*Bird Clan (Fusualgi),
*Bog Potato Clan (Ahalakalgi),
*Cane Clan (Kohasalki),
*Deer Clan (Itchualgi),
*Fish Clan (Hlahloalgi),
*Fox Clan (Tsulalgi),
*Hickory-Nut Clan (Odshisalgi),
*Maize Clan (Aktayatsalgi, Atchialgi),
*Mole Clan (Takusalgi),
*Otter Clan (Osanalgi),
*Panther Clan (Chukotalgi, Katsalg),
*Raccoon Clan (Wahlakalgi, Wotkalgi),
*Salt Clan (Okilisa, Oktchunualgi),
*Skunk Clan (Kunipalgi),
*Toad Clan (Pahosalgi, Sopaktalgi),
*Turtle Clan (Locvlke) – related to Wind Clan
*Wild-Cat Clan (Koakotsalgi),
*Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi),
*Wolf Clan (Yahalgi)<ref name=AAANativeArts /> – related to Bear Clan.
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